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Talk:Horror movie

2008-09-16T18:23:29Z

Petechipperson: New page: I'll leave them for now, but I don't think Jaws and Sixth Sense are really considered "horror movies" in the classic sense of the term.--~~~~

I'll leave them for now, but I don't think Jaws and Sixth Sense are really considered "horror movies" in the classic sense of the term.--[[User:Petechipperson|Petechipperson]] 14:23, 16 September 2008 (EDT)

Richard Durbin

2008-09-16T18:19:07Z

Petechipperson: rmv excess apostrophe

[[Image:Dick Durbin.jpg|thumb|right| Senator Dick Durbin]]
'''Richard J. (Dick) Durbin''' is a [[liberal]] [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] [[United States of America|U.S.]] [[United States Senate|Senator]] from [[Illinois]]. Senator Durbin was born on November 21, 1944 in [[East St. Louis]], [[Illinois]]. Senator Durbin is the current Assistant Majority Leader for the U.S. Senate.

==Education and Career==
Durbin graduated from [[Georgetown University]] with a B.S. in 1966 and a J.D. in 1969. Durbin was an attorney. He was elected to the U.S. Senate on November 5, 1996 and re-elected in 2002. In 2004, Durbin was elected as Minority Whip. In December 2006 Senator Durbin was elected by his fellow Democratic senators to the post of Assistant Majority Leader, also known as Majority Whip.

==Family==
Senator Durbin is married to Loretta Schaefer Durbin. They have three children and one grandchild.

==Interest group ratings==
Based on the ratings from interest groups, Dick Durbin has a very [[liberal]] platform.
*Rated 100% by NARAL, indicating an anti-life voting record
*Rated 4% from Citizens Against Government Waste
*Rated 60% by the [[ACLU]]
*Rated 0% by the Christian Coalition: an anti-family voting record.
*Rated F by the NRA, indicating an anti-2nd Amendment Rights voting record.
*Rated 85% by the AFL-CIO, indicating a pro-union voting record.
*Rated 14% by NTU, indicating a "Big Spender" on tax votes.

==Controversy==
Senator Durbin made a statement In 2005 morally equating U.S. treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, (zero killed, a few died of suicide) with prisoner treatment by Pol Pot (200,000 killed, 1,500,000 died). He later apologized for his comments. <ref>[http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,160275,00.html Durbin Apologizes for Nazi, Gulag, Pol Pot Remarks], Sharon Kehnemui Liss, ''[[Fox News Channel|Fox News]]'', June 22, 2005</ref>

<blockquote>"If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime — Pol Pot or others — that had no concern for human beings."</blockquote>

==Sources==
*[http://durbin.senate.gov/aboutrjd.cfm Richard J. Durbin Biography]]

==References==
{{reflist|2}}

==External Links==
*[http://durbin.senate.gov/ Official U.S. Senate Website]
*Durbin Compares U.S. Troops to Nazis, Soviets, & Pol Pot, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7FaSEQ-fKc]
*[http://www.aim.org/wls/author/dick-durbin/ What Liberals Say - Dick Durbin], [[Accuracy In Media]]
*[http://www.ontheissues.org/Senate/Richard_Durbin.htm Durbin's Position On the Issues]
*[http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/d000563/ Voting record]
[[Category:United States Senators]]
{{DEFAULTSORT:Durbin, Dick}}

Lisa Murkowski

2008-09-16T18:08:04Z

Petechipperson: rmv excess apostrophe, recycle used "s"

[[Image:Lisa Murkowski.jpg|right|150px]]
'''Lisa Ann Murkowski''' (born May 22, 1957) is currently the junior [[United States]] [[U.S. Senator| Senator]] from [[Alaska]] and is member of the [[Republican Party]]. She is Alaska's first female senator and the first woman ever elected to either chamber of [[U.S. Congress|Congress]] from Alaska. In 1998, Murkowski was elected to the Alaska [[House of Representatives]] and had been elected the House Majority Leader for the 2003–2004 session. In December of 2002, her father, Governor [[Frank Murkowski]], appointed her to a seat in the United States Senate. Senator Murkowski was elected to a full six-year term in 2004.

==Political views==
Lisa Murkowski supports oil exploration in her home state of Alaska, saying that recent technological developments have reduced the environmental risks of drilling in ANWR. Murkowski has recieved a 14% rating from [[NARAL Pro-Choice America]], indicating a pro-life voting record although she describes herself as "[[pro-choice]]." She is also a member of several abortion rights groups such as The Republican Majority For Choice, Republicans For Choice and The Wish List. Murkowski voted to ban [[partial birth abortion]] and to make it a criminal penalty for harming an unborn fetus during other crimes. Murkowski likewise is a strong advocate of embryonic stem cell research.

Murkowski is one of ten Republican Senators who refused to commit to Senate Majority Leader [[Bill Frist]]'s "nuclear option" to end judicial filibusters.

==External Links==
*[http://murkowski.senate.gov/ Official Website]
*[http://www.ontheissues.org/Senate/Lisa_Murkowski.htm On the Issues]
*[http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/m001153/ Voting Record]
{{DEFAULTSORT: Murkowski, Lisa Ann}}
[[Category:United States Senators]]
[[Category:Republican Party]]
[[Category: 110th United States Congress]]
[[Category:Alaska]]

Webster Cook

2008-09-16T18:00:07Z

Petechipperson: captialization, reword

'''Webster Cook''' is a [[University of Central Florida]] [[student]] and a former [[Senator]] of the Student Government Association. He was impeached because of an incident where Cook was attending mass with a [[friend]] who had never received [[communion]]. Cook said he would bring a [[Catholic]] wafer back to his friend in the alter. He pretended to consume it and put it in his pocket, and was confronted by another member of the congregation. <ref>http://media.www.centralfloridafuture.com/media/storage/paper174/news/2008/08/29/News/Timeline.To.The.Vote-3408222.shtml</ref> [[Church]] officials claimed he was disrupting the [[service]].

==External links==
[http://www.mahalo.com/Webster_Cook Fox News report on Webster Cook]

==References==
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[[Category:Catholicism]]

Talk:Anchor

2008-09-16T17:50:10Z

Petechipperson: times two?

Perhaps these should be split into two articles (one for boat anchor and one for news anchor)?--[[User:Petechipperson|Petechipperson]] 13:50, 16 September 2008 (EDT)

Anchor

2008-09-16T17:49:21Z

Petechipperson: careful when you cut/paste!--plus, more

An '''anchor''' is a heavy object attached to a [[vessel]] by a cable or [[rope]] and cast overboard to keep the vessel in place either by its weight or by its flukes, which grip the bottom.

In television and radio, an anchor is the primary or lead newsreader.

[[Category:Marine]]

Henry Stimson

2008-09-16T17:45:39Z

Petechipperson: (ic)

[[Image:HenryStimson.jpg|right|thumb|200px|'''Henry Stimson''']] '''Henry Lewis Stimson''' (September 21, 1867 – October 20, 1950) served as [[United States]] Secretary of [[War]] under [[President]]'s [[William Howard Taft]], [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]], [[Harry S. Truman]] and [[Secretary of State]] under [[Herbert Hoover]], previously serving as Governor-General of the [[Philippines]].

Despite his work in [[Democratic]] [[administration]]s, he was a staunch [[conservative]] [[Republican]]. As Secretary of War during [[World War II]] - responsible for the [[Army]] and Air Force - he took an aggressive stance against [[Nazi]] [[Germany]]. He promoted the growth of [[military]] industries, and reorganize the War Department and expanded it to 12 million [[men]] and [[women]]. <ref>http://www.answers.com/topic/henry-l-stimson</ref>

[[Child]] of a wealthy [[family]] from [[New York]], Stimson was educated at Phillips Andover Academy, [[Yale]] [[College]], and [[Harvard]] [[Law]] [[School]]. In 1892, he became a parter to a prestigious [[Wall Street]] law firm. And in 1906 President [[Theodore Roosevelt]] appointed him U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. He unsuccessfully ran for Governor in 1910.

Stimson's distinguished career began in the Taft [[administration]] when he appointed Secretary of War in 1911 and helped modernize the army's structure during [[World War I]]. He was asked by President [[Calvin Coolidge]] to impose a settlement in [[Nicaragua]] and in 1927 served as governor general of the Philippines. He was President [[Herbert Hoover]]'s secretary of state and was involved with foreign policy matters such as London Naval Conference of 1930 and the invasion of [[Manchuria]]. In 1940 he was appointed Secretary of War again under Franklin D. Roosevelt. As War Secretary during World War II he expanded the army base to over 10,000,000 [[soldier]]s. As Secretary of War under Harry Truman he was a senior adviser to the [[Manhattan Project]], which built the [[atomic bomb]].

Stimson died in 1950 at the age of 83. <ref>http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0921.html</ref>

==References==

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[[Category:Political People]]

David Foster Wallace

2008-09-16T17:44:04Z

Petechipperson: grammar, spelling, etc

'''David Foster Wallace''' (February 21, 1962 – September 12, 2008) was a professor at [[Pomona College]] in Claremont, [[California]], and a writer of both fiction and nonfiction. He is perhaps best known for his 1996 novel Infinite Jest, which was named by [[Time Magazine]] as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005.

Born in Ithaca, [[New York]], Wallace was a [[tennis]] player and majored in [[English]] and philosophy. Aside from writting novels, he wrote short stories in [[magazine]]s such as Playboy, The Paris Review, The New Yorker and others. Wallace has written some nonfiction. He covered [[Senator]] [[John McCain]]'s 2000 [[President]]ial [[campaign]] and the [[September 11, 2001 attacks]] for [[Rolling Stone]]. A [[liberal]], he has been a critic of the [[United States]] and [[War on Terrorism]]. In the November 2007 issue of The Atlantic, he said "Have we become so selfish and scared that we don't even want to consider whether some things trump safety?"

Wallace committed [[suicide]] by hanging on Friday, September 12, 2008 at age 46 because of depression. <ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/15/books/15wallace.html?_r=1&em&oref=slogin</ref>

==Books==
*The Broom of the System (1987)
*Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race In the Urban Present (1990)
*Infinite Jest (1996)
*A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again (1997)
*Up, Simba! (2000)
*Everything and More (2003)
*Consider the Lobster (2005)
*McCain's Promise: Aboard the Straight Talk Express with John McCain and a Whole Bunch of Actual Reporters, Thinking About Hope (2008)

==References==

<references/>

[[Category:Liberals]]

Community college

2008-09-16T17:39:41Z

Petechipperson: spelling, grammar, excess apostophes, etc

A '''community college''' is a type of [[education]]al institution that is geared towards local students with different needs. As of January 2008, 11.5 million [[student]]s are enrolled in community [[college]]s. <ref>http://www2.aacc.nche.edu/research/index.htm</ref> Recently some of them have been offering bachelor's degrees, such as Central [[Florida]] Community College. <ref>http://www.ocala.com/article/20080805/NEWS/808052046/1340/NEWS&title=CFCC_debates_offering_bachelor_s_degree</ref> They typically have smaller classes and libraries then universities. Community colleges are governed by a [[board of trustees]], and they then select a [[president]] or chancellor to lead the factuality. They are sometimes referred to as "junior colleges."

==External links==
*[http://www.aacc.nche.edu/ American Association of Community Colleges]

==References==

<references/>

[[category:education]]
[[category:colleges|*]]

American Right to Life Action

2008-09-16T17:36:16Z

Petechipperson: there / their

The '''American Right To Life Action''' is a 527 organization that campaigns for [[pro-life]] candidates. Their [[president]] is Steve Curtis, former chairman of the [[Colorado]] [[Republican]] Party.

==External Links==
[http://artlaction.com/ official website]

[[Category:Organizations]]
[[Category:Right to Life Movement]]

Peggy Noonan

2008-09-16T17:35:17Z

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[[Image:Peggy.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Peggy Noonan]] '''Peggy Noonan''' (born Margaret Ellen Noonan on September 7, 1950, in [[Brooklyn]], [[New York]]) is a [[conservative]] columnist for The [[Wall Street Journal]] and best selling [[author]] of eight [[book]]s mostly on [[politics]] and [[religion]]. Her columns have also appeared in [[Forbes]], [[Time]], [[Newsweek]], the [[Washington Post]], and the [[New York Times]]. <ref>http://www.peggynoonan.com/biography.php</ref>

Noonan holds honorary doctorates from Adelphi University, St. John Fisher College, [[Miami University]], and her alma mater, Fairleigh Dickinson University. After serving as a producer for [[CBS]] [[News]], she worked as a speech writer for [[President]] [[Ronald Reagan]]'s [[administration]]. She wrote Reagan's famous 1986 speech after the [[Space]] Shuttle Challenger disaster. During the 1988 Presidential Election she also wrote memorable phrases for then-[[Vice President]] [[George H. W. Bush]] such as "a kinder, gentler nation" and "a thousand points of light."

==Books==
*What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era (1990)
*Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness (1994)
*Simply Speaking: How to Communicate Your Ideas With Style, Substance, and Clarity (1998)
*Character Above All (1999)
*The Case Against [[Hillary Clinton]] (2000)
*When Character Was King: A Story of Ronald Reagan (2001)
*A Heart, A Cross And A Flag (2003)
*John Paul the Great: Remembering a Spiritual Father (2005)

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:Women Authors]]
[[Category:Conservative Commentators]]

University of Central Florida

2008-09-16T17:33:32Z

Petechipperson: d'oh!

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The '''University of Central Florida''' (UCF) is a university in [[Orlando]], [[Florida]]. It is the seventh largest [[university]] in the [[United States]]. <ref>http://www.umark.ucf.edu/images/pdf/Graphic_Standards81507.pdf</ref> Founded in 1963 as Florida Technological University, 49,000 [[student]]s are enrolled in the [[college]] as of 2007. They have 350 [[club]]s and organizations. <ref>http://www.ucf.edu/campus_life/</ref> In 2006, the Princeton Review listed it on their annual guide to the best institutions for undergraduate [[education]] in the United States. <ref>http://news.ucf.edu/UCFnews/index?page=article&id=00240041338a60010331bcbbf6007979</ref>

Their [[president]] is Dr. John Hitt

==References==
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{{Nb_US_universities}}

University of Central Florida

2008-09-16T17:32:57Z

Petechipperson: there/their, plus

{{University
|name=University of Central Florida
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|background=
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|city=Orlando, Florida
|sports=Football
|colors=Black, Gold
|mascot=Knightro
|website=http://www.ucf.edu/
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The '''University of Central Florida''' (UCF) is a university in [[Orlando]], [[Florida]]. It is the seventh largest [[university]] in the [[United States]]. <ref>http://www.umark.ucf.edu/images/pdf/Graphic_Standards81507.pdf</ref> Founded in 1963 as Florida Technological University, 49,000 [[student]]s are enrolled in the [[college]] as of 2007. They have 350 [[club]]s and organizations. <ref>http://www.ucf.edu/campus_life/</ref> In 2006, the Princeton Review listed it on their annual guide to the best institutions for undergraduate [[education]] in the United States. <ref>http://news.ucf.edu/UCFnews/index?page=article&id=00240041338a60010331bcbbf6007979</ref>

Their[[President]] is Dr. John Hitt

==References==
<references/>

{{Nb_US_universities}}